Main area Equipment Technician - Wheelchair Services Grade Band 3 Contract Permanent Hours
* Full time
* Part time
37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday) Job ref 350-CC6824205-A
Site Knowsley Wheelchair Service Town Liverpool Salary £24,071 - £25,674 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 11/02/2025 23:59
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
Job overview
The Equipment Technician will work within the Knowsley wheelchair service. The service aims to provide an effective and efficient service to the area, supporting people of all ages with wheelchair provisions. The service supports the assessment and delivery of wheelchairs to assist in safe discharges from hospital, pressure care needs, end of life care, moving and handling, and supporting independence. As part of the wheelchair service model, the service collects, decontaminates, refurbishes, services, and maintains wheelchairs.
1x 37.5 Hours Full Time Role Available
Previous applicants need not apply.
Main duties of the job
Principle Responsibilities:
1. Assist the Clinical Engineer Technician in delivering an excellent refurbishing service ensuring all equipment is categorised, refurbished, repaired, and serviced in stores prior to dispatch into the community.
2. Repairs of wheelchair equipment on-site at base or in the community in service user residential environments.
3. To ensure the correct parts required are available for daily schedules.
4. To take instruction from the Clinical Engineer Technician completing delegated workload.
5. Organise own workload to maximise efficiency.
6. Condemn equipment that is beyond economical repair following procedures and requesting sign off.
7. Maintain accurate stock control systems using a computerised system.
8. Update systems regarding items of equipment required for repair, service, and maintenance.
9. Assist in the completion of categorisation of manual wheelchairs to be repaired or refurbished in stores.
10. To salvage parts from equipment that have been quality inspected for reuse in line with the service sustainability aim.
11. Deliver and assist with the PPM (Planned Preventative Maintenance) of manual wheelchairs/equipment.
12. Deliver and participate in self/staff development of training activities as required.
13. To carry out weekly/monthly stock checks of all spare parts required for PPM and participate in the annual stock take as required.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales, and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable, and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Principle Responsibilities:
1. Assist the Clinical Engineer Technician in delivering an excellent refurbishing service ensuring all equipment is categorised, refurbished, repaired, and serviced in stores prior to dispatch into the community.
2. Repairs of wheelchair equipment on-site at base or in the community in service user residential environments.
3. To ensure the correct parts required are available for daily schedules.
4. Ability to problem solve and pay attention to detail.
5. To take instruction from the Clinical Engineer Technician by completing delegated workload.
6. Organise own workload to maximise efficiency.
7. Condemn equipment that is beyond economical repair following procedures and requesting sign off.
8. Ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes to provide effective stock management of equipment.
9. Maintain accurate stock control systems using a computerised system where possible.
10. Update systems regarding items of equipment required for repair, service, and maintenance.
11. Assist in the completion of categorisation of manual wheelchairs to be repaired or refurbished in stores.
12. To salvage parts from equipment that have been quality inspected for reuse in line with the service sustainability aim.
13. Deliver and assist with the PPM (Planned Preventative Maintenance) of manual wheelchairs/equipment.
14. Deliver and participate in self/staff development of training activities as required.
15. To carry out weekly/monthly stock checks of all spare parts required for PPM and participate in the annual stock take as required.
16. To receive all deliveries of spare parts equipment and store them appropriately, ensuring all equipment is processed onto the stock control system and located within the stores environment.
17. To identify and report all defective materials received into stores directly to the line manager and organise remedial action as required.
18. In times of service BCP or staffing shortages, the post holder would be expected to cover roles within banding remit, including driving, delivering and fitting of community equipment, collection and decontamination of equipment.
Person specification
Qualifications
* GCSE or equivalent level grade C or above English and other subjects
* NVQ level 3 or above in Engineering or equivalent
Knowledge/Experience
* Experience working within an NHS or Healthcare setting
* Experience of use of computer systems
* Experience of working in a diverse cultural and socioeconomic community
* Experience of working as a technician or similar
Values
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
Skills
* Awareness of own competency level and how to seek assistance if required
* Awareness of safeguarding
* Ability to maintain and set personal and professional boundaries
* Ability to work independently and carry out directed tasks with clients in their own homes/residential or nursing
* Ability to work as part of a team
* Ability to work on own initiative and problem solve
* Understanding the importance of equality and diversity
* Ability to manage own time effectively
* Dexterity of completing demands of the post – intensive and physical at times
* Driving License
* Ability to keep and maintain accurate data using a bespoke database
* Knowledge of wheelchairs
Additional Information
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme, you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enroll for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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